Today I was walking back to my car with my trusty walker, minding my own business, when I woman pulled over in a car, wound down the window and said 'your walker is too low, if you got a taller one you could stand up straight'.
As many of you already know, I walk bent forwards at the hips at a 45% angle. If I stand up right I immediately fall over backwards (as in landing on the floor with a thud).
I looked at her incredulously (why, I have no idea, as this is not the first time this has happened) and said 'this is just the shape I am, do you really think i am so stupid as to use an incorrectly adjusted walker?'
It's not like I haven't had a fleet of OT's and physio's and goodness knows who else looking at the way I walk and adjusting my walker etc etc.
Man, this is so stupid. I get people telling me all the time if I lengthened my crutches I would be able to stand up right. People even offer to do it for me - with my old crutches I was tempted to take them up on the offer as one of them was so silted up I could never get it to move - who knows, maybe they would have better luck ?
I am just amazed that total strangers would come up to me and tell me how to use my mobility equipment, and also that they would think I was stupid enough to not find a way of standing up straight if I could ? Whose body is it anyway ? This is just so bizzare.
For the first time, I was really happy with my response. I wasn't nasty, just honest. But honestly, I have had time to think about responses because as I said before, this is not the first time this has happened. It was the first time someone pulled off the road to bless me with their words of wisdom though .....
have a nice day
raglet
As many of you already know, I walk bent forwards at the hips at a 45% angle. If I stand up right I immediately fall over backwards (as in landing on the floor with a thud).
I looked at her incredulously (why, I have no idea, as this is not the first time this has happened) and said 'this is just the shape I am, do you really think i am so stupid as to use an incorrectly adjusted walker?'
It's not like I haven't had a fleet of OT's and physio's and goodness knows who else looking at the way I walk and adjusting my walker etc etc.
Man, this is so stupid. I get people telling me all the time if I lengthened my crutches I would be able to stand up right. People even offer to do it for me - with my old crutches I was tempted to take them up on the offer as one of them was so silted up I could never get it to move - who knows, maybe they would have better luck ?
I am just amazed that total strangers would come up to me and tell me how to use my mobility equipment, and also that they would think I was stupid enough to not find a way of standing up straight if I could ? Whose body is it anyway ? This is just so bizzare.
For the first time, I was really happy with my response. I wasn't nasty, just honest. But honestly, I have had time to think about responses because as I said before, this is not the first time this has happened. It was the first time someone pulled off the road to bless me with their words of wisdom though .....
have a nice day
raglet